thenff.com<\/a>; “We are impressed because\u00a0the Eaglets were able to implement all what we have been teaching them since
\nwe started.”<\/p>\nHe was also of the view that winning their two-match friendly against\u00a0the Argentine U-17 (2-1) and U-20 side of Racing Club (3-1) has positively\u00a0boosted the morale before their departure to Chile.\u00a0He said further: “We are not getting carried away despite winning our\u00a0two matches here but we are happy we have achieved part of our\u00a0objectives of coming to Argentina but we are grateful for the\u00a0opportunity to be here for our preparation;\u00a0 we have been struggling\u00a0to adjust to the cold weather since it is colder in Chile.<\/p>\n
“The World Cup is a different ball game because all the 24 teams have\u00a0the chance to win but we are going to Chile with the objective of\u00a0defending the trophy and we are looking forward to a good tournament.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a squad of 21 players and 10 officials including NFF Assistant Director (Technical), Siji\u00a0Lagunju will\u00a0on Tuesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0evening head to Santiago for the defense of the\u00a0FIFA U-17 World Cup won for a record fourth time by Nigeria two years\u00a0ago in the UAE. The Golden Eaglets have been drawn against USA,\u00a0Croatia and hosts, Chile in Group A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigeria’s U-17 team, Golden Eaglets rounded off their tour of Argentina\u00a0on Monday with a convincing 3-1 win over the U-20 side of Racing Club\u00a0of Buenos Aires. The Coach Amuneke-led Eaglets \u00a0will\u00a0on Tuesday depart for Santiago for\u00a0the FIFA U-17 World Cup to be held in Chile between October 17 and\u00a0November 8.\u00a0Victor Osimhen grabbed a brace in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[29,212,213,116,43,214,46,438,215,144],"class_list":["post-4529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golden-eaglets","tag-argentina","tag-chile","tag-emmanuel-amuneke","tag-featured","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-u-17-world-cup","tag-nigeria-football","tag-racing-club","tag-santiago","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}